Though Highsmith News Today

Fort Worth-born author of ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ left behind a complicated, messy legacy ‘Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires,’ a new biography by Richard Bradford, explores the life and work of Patricia Highsmith. Writer Patricia Highsmith at a film festival in Sept. 1987 in Deauville, France.(Denize-Pelletier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) In 1967, Patricia Highsmith’s U.S. agent sent her a letter, explaining that editors thought her paperbacks weren’t selling well in America becaus...